Włodzimierz
Lubański was the star of the Poland squad that had won the Previous year’s
Olympic title. The injury forced him out of Football for nearly two years. As a
result he missed the chance to participate in the 1974 World Cup that Poland
finished third.

Years
later in his autobiography, he stated that McFarland’s foul was not entirely
responsible for the severity of his injury, he was in fact already carrying an
injury that had not sufficiently healed.

Photo
From: Foot Magazine, Issue 17, October
1982

(Włodzimierz
Lubański )

4- Event:

France’s
Gilbert Gress refusing to get a hair cut in 1966.

Consequence:

Future
Great manager Gilbert Gress was ordered by France Manager Henri Guerin to get a
haircut in order to be called up for the national Team.

Gress
refused and as a result Guerin did not select him for the 1966 France World Cup
squad.

James
Paul Holmes was harshly tackled by Ivan Iliev, as a result his leg was broken.
He was taken to a Bulgarian Hospital where the plaster was cast on too tight.
He was in so much pain on the return flight, that they were forced to land in
Geneva to replace the plaster.

He endured
many more operations and was out of the game for nearly a year. Although he
managed to earn one more cap for Ireland in 1981, the injury in Sofia
effectively ended his career.